Title 25, Title 25: Water Resources. Flood and Erosion Control

Sec. 25-84. Municipal flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control boards. Joint flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control boards. Appointment of alternate members. Biannual report. (a) (1) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, adopt th…

Sec. 25-85. Establishment of flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system. Requirements of flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control boards. (a) Such board shall have authority, within the limits of appropriations from time to time made by the mu…

Sec. 25-86. Taking of property. Such board is authorized to enter upon and to take and hold, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, any real property or interest therein which it determines is necessary for use in connection with the flood prevention, climate resilience and eros…

Sec. 25-87. Bond issue authorized. Assessments. At any time after voting to acquire, construct, reconstruct, operate or maintain any flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system or portion thereof, the board in its discretion may elect to defray the cost thereo…

Sec. 25-88. Method of assessment. Whenever any assessment is made as herein provided, the amount to be raised thereby shall be apportioned among the properties benefited according to such rule as the board may adopt, based upon area, street frontage, assessed valuation of the lan…

Sec. 25-89. New and supplementary assessments. If any assessment is not valid or enforceable for any reason, a new assessment may be made in the manner hereinbefore provided for the determination of the original assessment. If any assessment is made which is not sufficient to cov…

Sec. 25-90. Assessment due date. Notice. Assessments shall be due and payable at such time as may be fixed by the board, provided no assessment shall become due until the work, or particular portion thereof for which such assessment was levied, has been completed. The board shall…

Sec. 25-91. Installment payment of assessments. The board may provide for the payment of such assessments in such number of substantially equal annual installments, not exceeding twenty, as it determines, and may provide for interest charges on any deferred payments. Any person w…

Sec. 25-92. Segregation and use of assessment funds. The proceeds of such assessments, whether or not pledged for the payment of securities, shall be segregated from other funds of the municipality and shall be used only to pay for the construction, reconstruction, repair, mainte…

Sec. 25-93. Delinquent payments. Any assessment against benefited property not paid within thirty days of the due date shall thereupon be delinquent and shall be subject to interest from the due date at the same interest rate and in the same manner as provided by the general stat…

Sec. 25-94. Agreements concerning navigation and flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control systems. Any flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control board established under section 25-84, any such board or commission established by special act or any di…

Sec. 25-95. Agreements of state and local authorities. The state, acting through the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, may enter into agreements with such local authority authorized to contract under section 25-94 for the purpose of constructing projects or sys…

Sec. 25-96. Attorney General to approve agreements. Assistance furnished at local expense. All contracts and agreements which the state may enter into shall be approved as to form by the Attorney General. The commissioner is authorized to furnish, at the request and expense of su…

Sec. 25-97. Joint projects of two or more municipalities. When any such improvement or protection project or system is located within two or more municipalities, such municipalities, acting by their individual or joint flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control boar…

Sec. 25-98. Acceptance of gifts. In carrying out the purposes for which it was established, any local authority authorized to contract under section 25-94 may (1) accept, receive and expend gifts, devises or bequests of money, lands or other properties to be applied and expended …

Sec. 25-98a. Taking or acquisition of certain municipal property by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for flood control and protection. Requirements. Removal or relocation of public service facility. Order. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general stat…

Sec. 25-99. Connecticut River Flood Control Compact. Approval is hereby given to a compact in the following form: CONNECTICUT RIVER FLOOD CONTROL COMPACT Whereas, the federal government exercises jurisdiction over the nation's navigable rivers and their tributaries through passag…

Sec. 25-103. Soil Conservation Advisory Committee. Section 25-103 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 3061; 1953, S. 1702d; 1957, P.A. 364, S. 4; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 121.)

Secs. 25-104 to 25-109b. Transferred to Chapter 446h, Secs. 22a-314 to 22a-324, inclusive.

Sec. 25-109c. Definitions. As used in sections 25-109c to 25-109k, inclusive, “conservation zone” means the zone described in section 25-109d; “development rights” means the rights of the owner of property to improve such property, including the right to change the terrain, remov…

Sec. 25-109d. Conservation zone designated. All of the following parcels of land are hereby designated as a conservation zone: (1) A parcel of land located west of the Niantic River, beginning at a point 1000 feet to the southeast of the highway limits of Interstate Route 95 and …

Sec. 25-109e. Niantic River Gateway Commission established. (a) The towns of East Lyme and Waterford may by ordinance establish a Niantic River Gateway Commission. The ordinance shall set forth the number of members of the commission, their method of selection, terms of office an…

Sec. 25-109f. Standards for preservation. (a) Within ninety days after establishment, the commission shall: (1) Hold public hearings for the purpose of developing minimum standards to preserve the area within the conservation zone as hereinafter provided; (2) using as guidelines …

Sec. 25-109g. Local zoning within conservation zone. (a) After each town to which sections 25-109c to 25-109k, inclusive, apply has voted to be so governed, the planning commission and the zoning commission, or the combined planning and zoning commission, of each such town shall …

Sec. 25-109h. Action on applications to zoning boards of appeals referred to Niantic River Gateway Commission. Whenever any zoning board of appeals of a town which has voted to be governed by the provisions of sections 25-109c to 25-109k, inclusive, receives an application with r…

Sec. 25-109i. Withdrawal of town by referendum. Reinstatement by referendum. (a) Any town which has voted to be governed by the provisions of sections 25-109c to 25-109k, inclusive, may, by referendum, vote not to be so governed and, effective six months thereafter, the provision…

Sec. 25-109j. Uniform Administrative Procedure Act not applicable. The provisions of chapter 54 shall not apply to any procedures to be followed or actions taken pursuant to the provisions of sections 25-109c to 25-109k, inclusive. (P.A. 87-512, S. 8.)

Sec. 25-109k. Appeals. Appeals from decisions of the Niantic River Gateway Commission may be made in the manner provided in section 8-8. (P.A. 87-512, S. 9.)

Sec. 25-109q. Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers National Heritage Corridor Advisory Council. Section 25-109q is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (P.A. 95-180; 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 210(e); P.A. 04-20, S. 3; 04-205, S. 5; May Sp. Sess…

Secs. 25-110 to 25-119. Transferred to Chapter 446j, Secs. 22a-401 to 22a-410, inclusive.

Sec. 25-120. Compact. ARTICLE I FINDINGS The northeastern part of the United States is by virtue of geographic location and other characteristics a great natural resource area which, with more intense use of natural resources, increasingly requires coordinated planning as a basic…

Sec. 25-121. Appointment of commission member. On or before May 1, 1975, and quadrennially thereafter, the Governor shall appoint one person from this state to serve on the Northeastern Resources Commission and the term of such office shall commence on the first day of July follo…

Secs. 25-122 to 25-125. Authority to enter compact. Assistance to Governor. Connecticut Interstate Water Compact Commission. Appropriation. Sections 25-122 to 25-125, inclusive, are repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 626, S. 1–4; P.A. 80-187.)

Sec. 25-126. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter: (1) “Well” means an artificial excavation or opening in the ground, by which groundwater can be obtained or through which it flows under natural pressure or is artificially withdrawn; (2) “Abandoned well” means a well wh…

Sec. 25-127. Connecticut Well Drilling Board. Section 25-127 is repealed. (1969, P.A. 659, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 139; P.A. 77-614, S. 179, 323, 610; P.A. 80-184; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 81-11, S. 14, 19; P.A. 82-431, S. 1, 6; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12, S. 54, 55.)

Sec. 25-128. Duties of board. Well Drilling Code. (a) For the purpose of safeguarding the public health, the board shall promote and encourage cooperation among well drillers and governmental agencies in the development and protection of records of underground water formations an…

Sec. 25-129. Certificate of registration. Insurance requirement. Limited contractor and limited journeyperson well casing extension certificates of registration. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection, with the advice and assistance of the board, shall establish…

Sec. 25-130. Permit to drill. Before commencing work on any water-supply well, the registered well driller shall apply to the board for a permit to drill such well. A fee of five dollars shall accompany such application. If the water-supply well conforms to the Well Drilling Code…

Sec. 25-131. Well records. Drilling, excavating and pumping activities affecting underground water resources. (a) Within sixty days, or other period established by the board, after the completion of a water-supply well, a well drilling contractor shall provide the owner, the boar…

Sec. 25-132. Wells for farming purposes. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a person from constructing a well on his own or leased property intended for use only for farming purposes on his farm, and where the waters to be produced are not intended for use by the public or in …

Sec. 25-133. Exemptions. (a) Where the board finds that compliance with all requirements of this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, other than requirements related to the purity, potability and safeguarding of well water, would result in undue hardship, an exemption…

Sec. 25-134. Exclusion. No well in existence on July 1, 1969, shall be required to conform to the provisions of this chapter or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto; provided any well now or hereafter abandoned shall be brought into compliance with the regulations ad…

Sec. 25-135. Penalty. Any person who engages in well drilling or offers to engage in well drilling, or advertises or holds himself out or acts temporarily or otherwise as a well driller, without first having obtained the required registration and any person who violates any provi…

Sec. 25-136. Disposition of fees. Fees received under this chapter shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to the credit of the General Fund. (1969, P.A. 659, S. 11.)

Sec. 25-137. Powers of Department of Public Health and health directors unaffected. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect or limit the duties and powers of the Department of Public Health or local directors of health, as provided by law, in matters relating to the …

Secs. 25-138 to 25-142. Purpose of committee. Establishment of committee; membership. Duties of committee; exceptions; report. Recommendations of committee re uniform signs for coastal access. Cooperation by other public bodies. Effective date of part. Sections 25-138 to 25-142, …